Name your space
RCN members are being offered the opportunity to nominate figures from nursing history who they think should be acknowledged at the organisation’s UK headquarters in London.
As part of the HQ Replan project, new meeting rooms at 20 Cavendish Square, London will be named after nurses who have had a significant impact on nursing and could inspire others across the UK.
Would you like to formally recognise someone who has made a significant contribution to nursing and/or patient care? Have you been inspired by an individual from the past whose story you would like to celebrate with other members of the RCN?
To nominate your nursing icon, let us know why a room should be named after your nominee by completing the online form no later than Friday 29 June. For a link to the form, please go to the Discussion Zone.
Your nomination should be no more than 250 words and must meet the criteria outlined below. The judging panel is looking for individuals who have made a significant contribution to the development of the profession in the UK or to the RCN. These individuals could either be well known or may not have been widely recognised in the past.
When writing your nomination, please try to include:
- why you think this individual should have a room named after them
- how this individual has inspired you
- what impact this individual had on nursing during their time, or continues to have today
- how this individual could inspire others who haven’t heard their story before.
Your nominee must:
- have been connected to the UK
- have been a nurse
- no longer be alive.
A panel of members from the History of Nursing Society and the Research and Development Governance Group will then release a shortlist which will be put to a vote of RCN members. The nursing icons with the highest number of votes will be used to name the rooms once building works at RCN HQ have been completed.